Last night's ITV documentary by Alex Renton showed up the reluctance of the boarding school authorities and bodies like the Independent Schools Couuncil to allow these scandals to spread too widely. Offenders were allowed to quietly leave and in some cases were still given references for jobs at ot...

Just caught up on this thread after 10 days in hospital undergoing stroke scans/tests etc. ( Thankfully, clear ), but a deep MRI has reulted in the discovery of severe oesteo-athritis in lower spine, neck and hips, but I digress... I can only repeat what I have said before... I cannot recall ANY inc...

I know I've commented on this before somewhere on here. At then end of one term, 1960-ish, I wasn't allowed home for two days due to being in the sicker. It may well have been a flu outbreak. Chicken Pox was the illness I managed to avoid completely at CH, ( 3 epidemics if memory serves ! ). Later i...

My wife and I have had yearly flu shots for the last decade or so. Sometimes it apparently works and sometimes not. Same as that, Martin. If my wife and I forget to re-book our vaccinations, we get repeated automated texts from the surgery. The actual vaccine is slightly different from year to year...

I remember five Americans at CH for a year, but only two names. Peter Flynn (1960-61) and Al Sharp (1961-62). Peter Flynn was altogther unAmerican, as we thought: very arty and unsporty (he became a judge). Al Sharp was the all-American boy. Some say he was sent as an antidote. I was his ' swab ' i...

There are quite a few in the UK.
Some come and run with us on the Costa Blanca Hash when they are visiting and others, having run in Madrid, come back when the Madrid Hash have their annual Hash in Javea.